From: khaines@...
Date: 2006-12-29T23:41:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Developpers on rails

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Strong Cypher wrote:

> Ouah ! Performance seems to be great !!!

Keep in mind that the performance that I state is NOT Rails performance. 
Rails is slower than that.  I use a different framework (IOWA).

> Ruby support charge, but what are the size of your application ?
>
> Certainly module aren't to big, but generally it's not necessary to do one
> proc with a big size
>
> You app never crashed ? it's rocking stable ?

I have around 65 separate sites/applications running at the moment.  Some 
of which have been running on the same process since 2005.  My expectation 
is for rock solid reliability, and I haven't had a problem with Ruby since 
the 1.6.8 version.

> So I don't know if find ruby developper is easy ... it's seems to be a new
> language ...

It's not a new language.  It's just newly popular outside of Japan. 
Finding developers is certainly going to be harder than finding PHP or 
Java developers, though, yes.

> some article point the lake of developper on core, all people love it, use
> it, but no body help core developper ... that's not really good,
>
> doesn't ruby could died in this way ?

There have been discussions around this topic, which you can find in the 
archives.  The nutshell of it, though, is that there are currently a few 
ongoing alternative Ruby implementation projects, and the official Ruby 
implementation is moving along, too.  Join the ruby-core mailing list or 
review its archives to see discussions regarding Ruby development.


Kirk Haines